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TIL From 1900-1930, the most popular form of home insulation was Cabot's Quilt. It was made of Eel Grass (Sea Grass) sewn (quilted) between two layers of Kraft Paper. Eel grass doesn't decompose like other plants. It was eventually replaced with fiberglass.

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kOm8g TIL that a cow escaped from a Polish farm and was spotted months later living with a herd of wild bison.
4BOg TIL Abraham Lincoln died with only $5 in his pocket. Ironic because he ended up on the $5 bill
ADYNo TIL the largest brick building in the Americas is located on an uninhabited island 68 miles west of Key West.
6g8 TIL that nearly $1 million of Royalties collected from sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, sit unused because no one wants the money.
waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.